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The Washington Post, like the unpleasant BBC and much of the English media, seems to suggest that Scotland needs England to bail out its banks.

To be fair, the Washington Post does quote Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond.

Salmond "noted that Ireland was entering its recession '40 percent more prosperous than the U.K.' and that Norway is a 'sea of stability' compared to Britain in the current crisis.

"Which is presumably why Gordon Brown did not want to mention Norway in his thesis that only small countries get into trouble. The country where this started is the United States of America - the largest economy in the world."

It should be noted that IRELAND does not want to join up with 'bankrupt' England.

NORWAY does not want to join up with Sweden.

And presumably CANADA does not want to be merged with the debt-laden USA.